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Since one of my hopes and goals is to eventually starting selling automotive, motorcycle and aviation art professionally some day I thought it might be a good idea to start producing more finished pieces of work of those subjects. Well here is one. This was a relatively quick piece of work I just finished. It is good to start feeling creative again
Now I have posted sketches of hot rods before http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2228355/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2228301/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2182351/ but this is the first color piece of a hot rod I've done before. Well, if you ignore all those crayon hot rods doodles I did when I was eight or ten.
While have not done much finished color hot rod art I did grow up around them. My dad did freelance photography for Hot Rod magazine in the late 50's early 60's, and I grew up attending car shows, auto races, air shows and scrounging around in hobby shops, surplus stores, hangers and garages. So I do have some feel for the topic. The piece is about 8"x10" and is my typical color pencil, marker, micron pen.
Now I have posted sketches of hot rods before http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2228355/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2228301/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2182351/ but this is the first color piece of a hot rod I've done before. Well, if you ignore all those crayon hot rods doodles I did when I was eight or ten.
While have not done much finished color hot rod art I did grow up around them. My dad did freelance photography for Hot Rod magazine in the late 50's early 60's, and I grew up attending car shows, auto races, air shows and scrounging around in hobby shops, surplus stores, hangers and garages. So I do have some feel for the topic. The piece is about 8"x10" and is my typical color pencil, marker, micron pen.
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I will be waiting for that one, as part of the local volkswagen club, I like Beetles, Ghias, buses, singlecabs, notch and fast backs...
I was asking because the 60's were when the beetle really took off in terms of sales and popularity, and if there were old photographs of cars, then probably some beetles got in the mix. when the college kids starting blueprinting bug engines just to see what they could do with them, they were challenging the existing musclecars, and holding their own. at the bug shows, drag racing reports end up at ten seconds and less. so yeah, a ghia. waiting for it...
I was asking because the 60's were when the beetle really took off in terms of sales and popularity, and if there were old photographs of cars, then probably some beetles got in the mix. when the college kids starting blueprinting bug engines just to see what they could do with them, they were challenging the existing musclecars, and holding their own. at the bug shows, drag racing reports end up at ten seconds and less. so yeah, a ghia. waiting for it...
It is amusing how small many of the rods are! If 
Smudge and I were sitting one our shoulder would almost be touching. They have very narrow bodies to them.
Smudge and I were sitting one our shoulder would almost be touching. They have very narrow bodies to them. 
Glad you like it. There are advantages to drawing hot rods over some later model muscle cars or contemporary vehicles because they have such simple lines. No compound curves or exotic angles to them. They are very straight forward creations.
That being said their simple lines can create their own challenges. I believe it was Picasso who said "The fewer the lines the more important the lines are." That is probably a paraphrasing. What it means though is that you have to get your dimensions right or else people can often easily spot your errors. You don't have lots of "surface excitement" to distract them.
That being said their simple lines can create their own challenges. I believe it was Picasso who said "The fewer the lines the more important the lines are." That is probably a paraphrasing. What it means though is that you have to get your dimensions right or else people can often easily spot your errors. You don't have lots of "surface excitement" to distract them.
It may be. One of the things I am really putting effort into is perfecting my drawing of wheels in perspective, and learning all the subtleties and nuances of different historical periods of wheel and tire design. Different decades sometimes had radically different designs for tire tread and width, wheel design, and hubcap styling.
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